Excerpt from Rational Recreations, Vol. 3: In Which the Principles of Numbers and Natural Philosophy Are Clearly and Copiously Elucidated, by a Series of Easy, Entertaining, Interesting Experiments; Among Which Are All Those Commonly Performed With the Cards
Fig. 2. The fulmineous condufior a is an oblong pole, b a copper yeffel in form pf a funnel, a (lender rod, terminated with a pointed wire dis a wire that defcends at a fact diflance from the building, and is carried into the room where the experiments are to be performed.
Fig. 3. The electric branch and table: a, b, r, d, is the table, placed againll the partition X.
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